From: poletti AT my-dejanews DOT com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: allegro == or != programming
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 17:42:29 GMT
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In article <35C42D12 DOT C9D01BA1 AT geocities DOT com>,
  Merlin <merlin__ AT geocities DOT com> wrote:
> I am just curious on what most people think about allegro....
I think it's great stuff.

> Not to put down allegro or anything (it does have it's uses) but isn't
> it sort-of like cheating in a way? I mean, it's like having all the
> important stuff done for you... the only thing required is an idea
> (although this is sometimes the hardest part)...
> I guess allegro is ok for a hobbist programmer and for learning, but for
> people who want to program for a living... It seems as if they are
> trying to take a shortcut. Like they are not interested in learning
> anything but the syntax of a programming language or just plain too lazy
> to actually do it themselves...  In my opinion if you are going to take
> these kinds of shortcuts it you may as well just ask another programmer
> to make your program for you... That may seem as though i am calling
> people who use allegro lazy or stupid but this is not true, most are
> probably perfectly capable programmers (i have even used allegro a few
> times, even though i feel like i'm not actually making the program
> myself)... Anyway, I just thought i'd get everyone's opinion on this (at
> least everone who answers)...
>
>      L8r.
>           Merlin.
>
Let me guess... Are you an assembler programmer? Or do you code your programs
directly as a sequence of '0' and '1'? ;) Maybe you have asked DJ Delorie to
program your compiler for you!

I think that every programming language has its benefits and its lacks. And I
think that Allegro library is a good extension to reach a goal in a shorter
time. This is not only a company point of view (I like programming, I did it
for my work, but I'm not a professional programmer and I never had problems
with my coding times!), it is only to reach a goal and make your idea work.
Beyond the lesson one could learn in re-implementig stuff, I think that one
should use something useful. Or have you re-implemented your personal
getch(), cprintf() and calloc() ?


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